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PATENT OFFICE.

VICTORIA.

HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,558, dated July 24 1894. Application iilecl July 10,1893. Renewed .Tune 22, 1894. Serial No. 515,426. (No model.)

vention for Improvements in Hangers to be as follows:

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved appliance or hanger in which the hook, by which the object is to be supported is hung, can be adjusted in height l relatively to the hookor other means by which the shank of our appliance is attached to any desired support. The said adjustability we secure by a mode of construction which combines simplicity with strength and cheapness and our hangers are suitable for supporting at any desired height kettles or other utensils in or over a fireplace, for crane hooks, for butchers use in hanging up carcasses and for similar purposes. Y

The construction is as follows, metal rod or wire being used, according to the size of the hanger, for all lparts exceptwhere otherwisev stated.

To understand our invention reference should be made to the vaccompanying drawings, which form a part of' this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation ofone form of our hanger, the partsbeing in the position assumed during, the pushing up of 'the adjustable hook to any desired point. Fig.

2 shows part of the same hanger with the parts in their normal relative position caused by the weight of or on the adjustable hook. Fig'. 3 shows a plan view of the fulcrum block used in the aforesaid form of hanger. Fig. 4. shows part of a modified form of our hanger in side elevation, the shank remaining as in Fig. l, and Fig.5 shows a plan view from above of the sliding block D.

' substantially the same function.

Parts C and D are not made of rod'or wire but are usually cast and have holes therein castor drilled as shown in the drawings. The parallel holes through D are shown by E and F and the holes through C (Figs. l, 2, and 3) by G and H, and in Fig. 4. where there is one hole only H, the end of the fulcrum piece C is receivedloosely into a recess or socket J in D. A is a straight rod terminating at its lower end in a hook L and twisted at its upperend so as to pass round B at lVI (and thus restricting the lateral swaying of the hook from the shank. B) and further bent at its upperextremity so as to pass respectively over through and under the fulcrurn block C bythe medium of the recess O and the hole G as shown in the drawings.

B the longitudinally extending shank of the whole appliance has its upperend formed into a hook N as a means for hanging or supporting the appliance in any required position.

C is free to slide up and down B when in position shown in Fig. l but whenever any Weight is put upon the outer or O end of C so as to incline the latter to the shank (whichA will be the case whenever downward pressure is put upon the adjustable hook as by hanging a kettle or other object thereto) then such action causes the fulcrum piece to assume an inclined position to the shank as shown in Fig. 2 in which position part of the sides of the hole H referred to press firmly against vthe shank B with a grip or pressure proportionate to the weight upon the hook and sufficient in all casesto prevent the hook and fulcrum piece from slipping downward. Indeed the weight of the hook alone will suffice for the purposes of retaining itself at any height to which it may be adj usted on the shank, so that in orderto adjust thesaid hook to any height one simple sliding operation alone will be sufticient.

The hole G and the recess J which are equivalents are sufficiently large to allow the fulcrum piece C to assume either of its two positions viz., inclined or horizontal and the hole H is put in obliquely or has its edges beveled (shown by the dotted lines) so that when C is inclined there will be two places where the shank B is gripped viz. at diagonally opposite edges of the hole shown by H' and ZOG The sliding block D which may be used in substitution for the upper part of 'the rod A from the point where it leaves the straight line to form the loop M performs the same functions as the part for which it is substituted that is to say, it keeps A in the same relative position to B and' connects A to C with the weight of A on the outer end of C so as to cause any Weight on the hook L to prof duce a grip at H and H2 on the shank B, Whichever of the forms of hanger be used.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim isl. An improved hanger in which an adj ustable rod as A having a hook L is connected 1o a shank as B by means of a turn in the rod as M 'and is connected at its upper end with nesses. WILLIAM TREWI-IELLA. BENJAMIN TREWHELLA, J R. Witnesses: v G. G. TURRI,

J. II. CALLANDER. 

